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Quebec
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Quebec is the second-most populous province of Canada and the only one to have a predominantly French-speaking population, with French as the sole provincial official language. Quebec is Canadas largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division and it also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Quebec is Canadas second-most populous province, after Ontario, most inhabitants live in urban areas near the Saint Lawrence River between Montreal and Quebec City, the capital. Approximately half of Quebec residents live in the Greater Montreal Area, the Nord-du-Québec region, occupying the northern half of the province, is sparsely populated and inhabited primarily by Aboriginal peoples. Even in central Quebec at comparatively southerly latitudes winters are severe in inland areas, Quebec independence debates have played a large role in the politics of the province. Parti Québécois governments held referendums on sovereignty in 1980 and 1995, in 2006, the House of Commons of Canada passed a symbolic motion recognizing the Québécois as a nation within a united Canada. These many industries have all contributed to helping Quebec become an economically influential province within Canada, early variations in the spelling of the name included Québecq and Kébec. French explorer Samuel de Champlain chose the name Québec in 1608 for the colonial outpost he would use as the seat for the French colony of New France. The province is sometimes referred to as La belle province, the Province of Quebec was founded in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 after the Treaty of Paris formally transferred the French colony of Canada to Britain after the Seven Years War. The proclamation restricted the province to an area along the banks of the Saint Lawrence River, the Treaty of Versailles ceded territories south of the Great Lakes to the United States. After the Constitutional Act of 1791, the territory was divided between Lower Canada and Upper Canada, with each being granted an elected legislative assembly, in 1840, these become Canada East and Canada West after the British Parliament unified Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada. This territory was redivided into the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario at Confederation in 1867, each became one of the first four provinces. In 1898, the Canadian Parliament passed the first Quebec Boundary Extension Act that expanded the provincial boundaries northward to include the lands of the aboriginal peoples. This was followed by the addition of the District of Ungava through the Quebec Boundaries Extension Act of 1912 that added the northernmost lands of the Inuit to create the modern Province of Quebec. In 1927, the border between Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador was established by the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Located in the part of Canada, and part of Central Canada. Its topography is very different from one region to another due to the composition of the ground, the climate. The Saint Lawrence Lowland and the Canadian Shield are the two main regions, and are radically different

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Canada
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Canada is a country in the northern half of North America. Canadas border with the United States is the worlds longest binational land border, the majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its territory being dominated by forest and tundra. It is highly urbanized with 82 per cent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, One third of the population lives in the three largest cities, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Its capital is Ottawa, and other urban areas include Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg. Various aboriginal peoples had inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years prior to European colonization. Pursuant to the British North America Act, on July 1,1867, the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick and this began an accretion of provinces and territories to the mostly self-governing Dominion to the present ten provinces and three territories forming modern Canada. With the Constitution Act 1982, Canada took over authority, removing the last remaining ties of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state. The country is officially bilingual at the federal level and it is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. Its advanced economy is the eleventh largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources, Canadas long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture. Canada is a country and has the tenth highest nominal per capita income globally as well as the ninth highest ranking in the Human Development Index. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, Canada is an influential nation in the world, primarily due to its inclusive values, years of prosperity and stability, stable economy, and efficient military. While a variety of theories have been postulated for the origins of Canada. In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona, from the 16th to the early 18th century Canada referred to the part of New France that lay along the St. Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada and Lower Canada collectively named The Canadas, until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, Canada was adopted as the name for the new country at the London Conference. The transition away from the use of Dominion was formally reflected in 1982 with the passage of the Canada Act, later that year, the name of national holiday was changed from Dominion Day to Canada Day

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Quebec Liberal Party
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The Quebec Liberal Party QLP is a federalist provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. It has been independent of the federal Liberal Party of Canada since 1955, while the party has been described as centre-right in the context of Canadian politics, the party believes in a strong role for government in the economy and supports socially liberal policies. Also the party has had a prominent social-democratic faction within it that was prominent in the party during the Quiet Revolution. The Quebec Liberals have always associated with the colour red. The most notable figure of this period was Louis-Joseph Papineau, the Liberals were in opposition to the ruling Conservatives for most of the first 20 years after Canadian Confederation, except for 18 months of Liberal minority government in 1878-1879. However, the changed in 1885 when the federal Conservative government executed Louis Riel. This decision was unpopular in Quebec, honoré Mercier rode this wave of discontent to power in 1887, but was brought down by a scandal in 1891. He was later cleared of all charges, the Conservatives returned to power until 1897. The Liberals won the 1897 election, and held power without interruption for the next 39 years and this mirrored the situation in Ottawa, where the arrival of Wilfrid Laurier in the 1896 federal election marked the beginning of Liberal Party of Canada dominance at the federal level. Notable long-serving Premiers of Quebec in this era were Lomer Gouin, by 1935, however, the Conservatives had an ambitious new leader, Maurice Duplessis. Duplessis merged his party with dissident ex-Liberals who had formed the Action libérale nationale, Duplessis led the new party, the Union Nationale, to power in the 1936 election. The Liberals returned to power in the 1939 election, but lost it again in the 1944 election and they remained in opposition to the Union Nationale until one year after Duplessiss death in 1959. In 1955, the PLQ severed its affiliation with the Liberal Party of Canada, under Jean Lesage, the party won an historic election in 1960, ending sixteen years of rule by the national-conservative Union Nationale. This marked the beginning of the Quiet Revolution, which dramatically changed Québec society, under Lesage, the Liberals developed a Quebec nationalist wing. In October 1967, former cabinet minister René Lévesques proposed that the party endorse his plan for sovereignty association, relations soured between the Quebec Liberal Party and the federal Liberal Party under Lesage, and worsened further under Robert Bourassa who had a poor relationship with Pierre Trudeau. Reelected in 1973, his government was embarrassed by several scandals. Bourassa resigned from the leadership after the loss of the 1976 election to René Lévesques Parti Québécois. Bourassa was succeeded as Liberal leader by Claude Ryan, the director of the respected Montréal newspaper

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Lomer Gouin
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Sir Jean Lomer Gouin, PC, KCMG was a Canadian politician. He served as 13th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec, as a Cabinet minister in the government of Canada. He was born in Grondines, Quebec, on May 24,1888, he married Éliza Mercier, daughter of Honoré Mercier. Their son, Paul Gouin, later led the Action libérale nationale party and he was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in 1897 in Montréal division no. 2, and was re-elected in 1900 and 1904, in the 1908 election he ran in both Portneuf and Montréal no. 2, and was elected in the former and defeated in the latter, in 1912 he won election in both Portneuf and Saint-Jean, he elected to resign the Saint-Jean seat. He was re-elected in Portneuf in 1916 and 1919, in 1920, he was named to the Legislative Council of Quebec, but resigned in 1921 without ever having taken his seat, and moved to federal politics. In the federal election of 1921, he was elected as a Liberal member of Parliament and he was subsequently named Lieutenant Governor of Quebec in 1929, but served only two months until his death in Quebec City. Lomer Gouin is interred in the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal and he won the 1908 election,1912 election,1916 election and 1919 election and resigned in 1920. Many sites and landmarks were named to honour Lomer Gouin, politics of Quebec List of Quebec general elections Timeline of Quebec history Works by or about Lomer Gouin at Internet Archive Biography. Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours, Lomer Gouin – Parliament of Canada biography Lomer Gouin

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William Alexander Weir
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William Alexander Weir was a Quebec lawyer, politician, and judge. He was the MLA for Argenteuil in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1897–1910, held several ministries, and helped rewrite several provincial Codes. William Alexander Weir was born in Montreal on October 15,1858, the son of William Park Weir and Helen Craig Smith, William Park Weir became Surveyor of Customs in the Port of Montreal. His brother, Robert Stanley Weir, would become famous as a judge, Weir attended the High School of Montreal and McGill University earning a B. C. L. in 1881 and was called to the Bar of Quebec on July 12,1881. He married Adelaide Sayers Stewart, daughter of William C. Stewart of Hamilton, during the time he practised law, Weir also wrote for The Montreal Star from 1880–1881 and the Argenteuil County News from 1895–1897. Weir published several editions of Quebec Civil Codes and he served as Secretary of the Royal Commission to revise the Code of Civil Procedure in 1897. Weirs first attempt at election to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in 1890 failed, in 1897, he ran again and succeeded in winning the riding of Argenteuil, representing the Liberal Party of Quebec. He was appointed Minister without Portfolio in 1903 under Premier Simon-Napoléon Parent, on February 3,1905, Weir, Lomer Gouin, and Adélard Turgeon joined forces and resigned from Cabinet in a push to force Parent out of the leadership. Gouin then became Premier on March 21,1905 and Weir served as Minister without Portfolio, Speaker, Minister of Public Works and Labour, upon appointment as a judge for the Quebec Superior Court on January 11,1910, Weir resigned his seat. He presided over the Workman libel trial in May 1911 and he finished his career becoming a Montreal District Court judge in 1923. William Alexander Weir died on October 22,1929 in London, dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours. Canadian Men & Women of the Time 1912, université de Sherbrooke Bilan du Siècle - William Alexander Weir Homme politique, avocat. Robert Stanley Weir Simon-Napoléon Parent Argenteuil

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Paul Tourigny
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Paul Tourigny was a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec. Born in Saint-Christophe-dArthabaska, Lower Canada, the son of Landry Tourigny and Lucie Poirier, Tourigny was mayor of Victoriaville from 1892 to 1898 and he was acclaimed to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Arthabaska in 1900. A Liberal, He was acclaimed again in 1904, re-elected in 1908 and he did not run in the 1916 election. He was appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec for the Kennebec division in 1921 and he served until his death in Victoriaville in 1926

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Maurice Perrault
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Maurice Perrault was a Canadian architect, civil engineer, and politician. Born in Montreal, Canada East, the son of Henri-Maurice Perrault, a surveyor and architect and he studied surveying and architecture from 1875 to 1879. In 1880, he went to work for his father which was called Perrault et Mesnard where he practiced architecture and he designed Laval University, St. Denis Street, 1893-94. From 1898 to 1902, he was mayor of Longueuil, Quebec and he was elected by acclamation to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the electoral district of Chambly in the 1900 election. A Liberal, he was re-elected in the 1904 and 1908 election and he died in office in 1909 and was buried in the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery. Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours

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Pierre-Calixte Neault
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Pierre-Calixte Neault was a politician Quebec, Canada and a two-term Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. He was born on December 26,1860 in Saint-Maurice, Mauricie and he served as Mayor of Grand-Mère from 1910 to 1916 and in 1919 and 1920. Neault ran as a Liberal candidate in the district of in the district of Champlain in 1900. He was re-elected in 1904 and 1908 and he lost re-election in 1912, against Conservative candidate Joseph-Arthur Labissonnière. He died on August 30,1924 in Grand-Mère

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Pierre D'Auteuil
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Pierre DAuteuil was a Canadian lawyer, politician and judge. Born in Rivière-Ouelle, Canada East, DAuteuil was educated at the Séminaire de Québec and he was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1881 and created a Kings Counsel in 1906. A lawyer, he was mayor of Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec from 1897 to 1901 and he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Charlevoix in 1897. A Conservative, he did not run in 1900 and he was elected again in 1904 and 1908, and then again in 1912, and 1916. In 1921, he was made a judge of the Quebec Superior Court

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Joseph-Mathias Tellier
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Sir Joseph-Mathias Tellier was born in Sainte-Mélanie, Quebec, Canada. He was a Quebec Conservative Party leader, but never Premier and he was in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1892 to 1916, as a Member for the riding of Joliette. After his studies at Université Laval, he was admitted to the Barreau du Quebec and he was mayor of Joliette from 1903 to 1910, and, in 1916, he became a Quebec Superior Court judge. He was Chief Justice of Quebec from 1932 to 1942 and he was made a Knight of the Order of Pius IX in 1906. He was Knighted by King George V in 1934 and he lost the 1912 election against Sir Lomer Gouin. List of Quebec leaders of the Opposition Biography, dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours. Works by or about Joseph-Mathias Tellier at Internet Archive